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After the education wars : how smart schools upend the business of reform / Andrea Gabor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gabor, Andrea, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- School improvement programs--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- School management and organization--United States.
- School management and organization.
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Aims and objectives.
- Physical Description:
- 373 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- How smart schools upend the business of reform
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today's reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and--contrary to popular belief--at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well." -- Amazon.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The quiet revolution
- Big dreams, small schools : how entrepreneurial rebels built a movement in New York City
- Testing power : when is disruption just . . . disruptive?
- State of reform : the not-so-quiet revolution in Massachusetts
- No lone stars : how trust and collaboration in one Texas school district have created lasting reform
- The hurricane and the charters : new schools unearth old ways in New Orleans
- Conclusion : A civic action: how schools
- and society
- benefit from real democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781620971994
- 1620971992
- OCLC:
- 1031433533
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